Stay Awhile

Hospitality entrepreneur Tim Hoffman figures people everywhere love to linger.

Add in friends, food, drinks and music, plus a dockside setting, and you've created a destination. At least that's the no-rush, no-worries setting Hoffman and his partners at HGH LLC envision for Gather, a smallish waterfront restaurant and bar that seats about 65 patrons HGH will open in October.

Situated aside the Caloosahatchee River at Cape Coral's Tarpon Point Marina, Gather aspires to be a waterfront draw for laid-back mingling. Hoffman says it will be the kind of place he noticed Cape Coral was missing when he and his wife, Meredith, and business partners Benjamin Voisin and Valeria Zanella Voisin started in the restaurant business on the Cape two years ago.